All the things you are: The Easter Bunny and the Easter Eggs

Friday, April 10, 2009

The Easter Bunny and the Easter Eggs

Lenten season is not complete without Easter egg hunting. This event is marked with the bunny and the multi-colored eggs. Most people however don’t know the origin of this occasion. So are you ready for some trivia trivia?

Read on and get up to the speed of knowing Easter bunny and its eggs.

Let us start off with the name Easter. It came from the word Eostre which is a name of an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess, originally of the dawn. In pagan times an annual spring festival was held in her honor.

Now the Bunny. Do you know that in earlier times it was Easter Hare and not Easter Bunny? But since rabbits are said to be a symbol of fruitfulness and fertility the interchange happened. Christians changed the symbol from Easter Hare to Easter Bunny since rabbits are more common everywhere.

Happy Easter everyone!

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